Hi Claire, Have you had a look at "what3words": http://what3words.com? It's three words and is multi lingual, quite a lot more usable than genetic codes.
In Tanzania my team and I have been looking at using them (through pilots) for locating/identifying water points and will scale them across a few regions over the next year. Happy to chat more if you would like. Best, Mark > On 2 May 2015, at 21:45, Claire Halleux <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ever heard of this? > A G*solution for locating places accurately where addresses are not obvious: > http://google-opensource.blogspot.be/2015/04/open-location-code-addresses-for.html > > Still, it doesn't seem to me more intuitive than coordinate systems. > Ex: I am currently in 87C4VXW3+HG8. > There are ways to shorten it, but I doubt that those would be applicable in > places that would actually need this kind of tool. > > However, would you have any experience on this or other ways to share > regarding using non standard geographic coordinates system for locating > places? > > Claire > > Claire Halleux > +243 99 256 9980 (Kinshasa, DRC) > Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team > > http://www.hotosm.org/ > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2014_DRC_Ebola_Response > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
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